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If payroll management is the bane of your company's existence, you're not alone. But you're also not without help. Online payroll processing sites let you toss the scraps of paper and cobbled-together spreadsheets that make up your current system. Once you've entered information about your staff and its related taxes and benefits, payday involves little more than supplying the number of hours each employee worked. If you're determined to keep payroll tasks in-house, we've reviewed three services that ease the burden.

PayCycleOnce again, Paycycle earns an Editors' Choice. This online payroll application is easy to set up and use, yet it lets you input detailed employee information. It even sends you e-mail reminders about tasks you need to carry out.

PayChex Online Payroll
This online payroll program needs work. It requires you to open multiple windows to complete some tasks and runs slowly besides. There are plenty of report types, but running reports is just too difficult.

Kathy Yakal has been annoying computer magazine editors since 1983, when she got her first technology writing job because she tagged along with her ex-husband on a job interview. She started freelancing and specializing in financial applications when PCs became financial tools for consumers and small businesses (after a stint at a high-end accounting software company). She’s written for numerous publications over the years, and about the only one that’s survived her besides PC Magazine (where she started writing in 1993) is Barron’s. When she...
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